Example sentences of "think [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not think , he wrote , biting his lips in concentration , bending low over the page , blinking to keep the sweat out of his eyes , do not think that it was ever far from my mind . |
| 2 | Though Eliot did not like Lindsay 's work , he did think that it might have paved the way for better things . |
| 3 | They want to be slim of course , yet after months or years of dieting failure you would think that it was time to stop trying . |
| 4 | The horse must prick its ears so that it looks ‘ happy ’ : it must not be relaxed and content with its ears backwards , either listening or resting , or else everyone will think that it is ‘ sour ’ . |
| 5 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 6 | All I can now remember of questions and answers is writing a three-hour essay on ‘ Security ’ , and I can not think that it was very good . |
| 7 | Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together . |
| 8 | You may well think that it is a dead-end and therefore dig down towards it . |
| 9 | Little did they think that it would still be going , if only just , well over 100 years later . |
| 10 | One would think that it must be a daunting task finding worthy nominees every year . |
| 11 | Because very young children have this inherent feeling that their parents can do no wrong , should one or other of those adults disappear from the scene for any reason , the child will always think that it is his fault . |
| 12 | Also , do n't think that it will put you into a trance or make you say or do stupid things . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't think that it 's going to come between us , you having a university education , ’ he had said . |
| 14 | I do n't think that it actually needs to be geographically located . |
| 15 | Jeffrey : I do n't think that it will halt the development of a sense of gay community and , in a way , it makes it more essential that there is a gay community . |
| 16 | Do you think that it 's possible for the big Italian museums to privatise their subsidiary functions without an advisory body of trustees , if only to assist museum administrators who have little experience of dealing with the commercial side ? |
| 17 | With all these aircraft begging to be looked at , one would think that it would be impossible to attempt to see everything that Oshkosh has to offer , not so ! |
| 18 | They did not always think that it was fair . |
| 19 | Another might think that it is a failure to respond to rewards , in which drug treatments that make animals insensitive to reinforcement would be the best model . |
| 20 | And we need to say that you know I do n't think that it 's criminal to have a gallery but it 's criminal to waste the space some of the time . |
| 21 | She did n't think that it was her place to do so nor did she want to appear to be a burden to the man she loved . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't think that it is all easy there either . |
| 23 | Because these were not casual , throw-away remarks , but a sustained celebration of youthfulness which has now become virtually unthinkable within the thickening twilight of liberal education : This kind of exhilaration has gone out of writings on the youth question , and some people will think that it is no bad thing . |
| 24 | I gave this approach this title following a pamphlet which reproduces a lecture given by the English Anglican bishop of high church disposition John Austin Baker to a conference of the Movement for the Ordination of Women.l8 I believe that it is ( in less thought-out form ) widely followed by proponents of the ordination of women , perhaps of a less radical variety , and certainly I would think that it appeals to many men . |
| 25 | Moreover I do not think that it can be said that they succeed in righting the imbalance in the symbolism of Christianity . |
| 26 | Do you think that it is a good policy ? |
| 27 | has anyone got any comment on that , do you think that it 's , a , a sensible thing to happen or do you think men ought to be infants ' teachers . |
| 28 | I do n't think that it 's all , all that er important . |
| 29 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 30 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |